ciphergoth comments on Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2009 10:49AM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 30 March 2009 05:39:54AM 0 points [-]

I don't think that needs to be a terminal value. People's deliberate choices provide information about what will actually make them happy; with compulsions, we have evidence that those things won't really make them happy.

I agree that it's useful to have words to distinguish what we want long-term when we think about it, and what we want short-term when tempted, and I've just done a post on that subject. However, I don't see how that helps rescue the idea of blame and deserving.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 30 March 2009 06:41:08AM 1 point [-]

However, I don't see how that helps rescue the idea of blame and deserving.

In case there was any confusion, I didn't mean to say it does.